Ben WerdmullerLinkedIn is using invasive techniques to fingerprint your browser. Together with its understanding of your identity and professional history, it has the ingredients for an incredibly detailed profile. #Technology https://werd.io/linkedin-is-illegally-searching-your-computer/
ocdtrekkie@ben So I saw a post from LinkedIn about it and it's arguably better/not better. They are looking for content scrapers to block to protect your privacy... sorry, their monopoly moat.
Colby Russell@ocdtrekkie @ben that's just spin through selective honesty on their part, and the HN-adjacent crowd is swallowing it.
mdp dumped a dataset extracted from their (massive) blob of sniffing logic two months ago.
There are a lot of scrapers and scummy leads-generators there. And there're plenty of conventional (in the putting-you-in-control sense) ones, too. Things like open source extensions designed to enforce caps on time spent on "distracting websites like YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook".